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  Drug subculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drug subcultures are examples of countercultures, primarily defined by recreational drug use.
Drug subcultures are groups of people loosely united by a common understanding of the meaning and value (good or otherwise) of the incorporation into life of the drug in question.
There are multiple drug subcultures based on the use of different drugs - the culture surrounding cannabis, for example, is very different from that of heroin, due to the different sort of experiences, sentiment amongst the crowd who is attracted to the drug in question, as well as the problems the users encounter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drug_culture   (196 words)

  
 Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 (PDUFA)
Today we are approving drugs in time periods that are as fast or faster than any country in the world with a comparable system of scientific rigor and public health commitment.
Sometimes drugs are not submitted at the same time, and it is possible that the United States could be faster and American patients still be waiting.
We understand, as well, that drug sponsors may be reluctant to pursue applications for new uses because of concerns that such efforts are too burdensome and costly.
www.hhs.gov /asl/testify/t970423a.html   (6560 words)

  
 List of notable drug culture figures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The list of notable drug culture figures comprises persons who are well-known specifically from their use, research into or advocacy of non-medicinal, psychoactive drugs.
The Shamen were notable for their song "Ebeneezer Goode", which was full of clear references to ecstasy and reached #1 in the UK charts for four weeks in 1992.
They have had close connections with such drug culture figures as Bill Hicks and Alex Grey, and their drummer, Danny Carey, has spoken openly about his DMT use.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_notable_drug_culture_figures   (1865 words)

  
 Hemp Library: Hemp prohibition in Japan
The most notable increase of drug-related arrests among young people is being seen in marijuana, which has become "fashionable" and is regarded as a "way to make friends" among young people, said Yoko Akimoto, chief of the Narcotics License Subsection in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Pharmaceutical Affairs Division.
While 90.3 percent of the students surveyed, including those not interested in experimenting, are aware that the use of drugs like narcotics, paint thinner, marijuana and cocaine is illegal, 20.4 percent feel that drug use is a matter of personal choice.
The drug was the largest amount of cannabis resin in a single seizure in Japan.
www.taima.org /en/hemplib4.htm   (2183 words)

  
 New York County Lawyers' Association Drug Policy Task Force   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mandatory drug sentencing laws and the mass guilty pleas they entail lead to insufficient checks on improper police activity, since, generally, no trial or suppression hearings occur when a defendant pleads guilty, at which forums improprieties on the part of law enforcement officers may be exposed.
Since current drug policy so profoundly and disproportionately impacts upon people of color, review of present laws must be undertaken to remove any discriminatory bias, and steps taken to ensure that whatever drug control laws and strategies are employed in the future, that they are fairly conceived and even-handedly enforced.
Expand judicial discretion in sentencing drug offenders on both the state and federal levels, permitting judges to sentence individual defendants in a manner suitable to the circumstances of the offense and the offender.
www.drugtext.org /library/reports/nycla/nycla.htm   (12610 words)

  
 Drug Courts in New Jersey: Past, Present and Future - Full Report
Notably, however, participants in Drug Court treatment are nevertheless held to strict standards of compliance with other stringent probation conditions such as frequent reporting, paying fines and restitution as soon as possible, clearing up old financial and court obligations, maintaining employment and/or education as soon as possible, and exercising family responsibility as soon as possible.
While the judge remains the ultimate authority figure in a Drug Court, s/he is fully conversant with and dependent upon the clinical judgment of the treatment representative(s) and is open to input from the rest of the team as well.
Drug Courts range in their willingness to abide initial difficulties that various participants may have in toeing the line, and typically rely upon their individual experience and expertise to determine how much to slack to allow for initial adjustment.
www.leadershipnj.org /full_drugcourts.html   (17254 words)

  
 SS Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
Cultural differences between Austrian and German SS men were ever-present to the end of the Second World War, even though in theory the two countries contributed to a single SS.
Other notable figures of the Austrian SS include Amon Göth who was portrayed in the film Schindler's List.
Relatively few SS doctors, however, were ever brought to justice with such figures as Joseph Mengele escaping to Argentina while still other SS doctors returned to civilian practice in Germany under assumed names or, in some cases, even their original identities.
www.prescriptiondrug-info.com /drug_information_online.asp?title=SS   (5913 words)

  
 culture wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For the purpose of this list, lifestyle is defined as any habits of social relations, consumption, dress, and recreation that are important enough to significantly influence the lives of a sector of the population, and hence can be used as a basis of social classification.
culture war speech is probably the most widely known paleoconservative critique.
paleolibertarianism, and being culturally conservative, they are sympathetic to many of the same themes of paleoconservatives.
dks.thing.net /culture_wars.html   (928 words)

  
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This new method of law enforcement has been made possible by three brain-damaged children of drug addicts who are suspended in a kind of amniotic fluid that enhances neural transmissions.
Eventually he figures out that he has something somebody wants, and he figures out who slipped it to him and how, but he still doesn’t know what it is or how dangerous the people are who are chasing him.
The film is also notable for some scenes with powerful visual symbolism, especially a scene where the Quoyle family home is first towed by ropes across the land and then destroyed in a storm.
www.nvcc.edu /home/dashkenas/movielist.doc   (11871 words)

  
 Drug-Resistant Properties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A written chronological list of lease violations and any criminal activity is much more impressive for police and judges than a vague "well, I think they're doing drugs in there", with no documentation.
A Drug Rehab program, for example, that is not on the bus line, and 20 miles away, may as well not exist for residents who don't have cars.
Drug intervention program to increase dialogue between parents and children, create a home school plan prepared by the parents and teachers, and provide summer academic reinforcement.
www.mincava.umn.edu /documents/drugres/drugres.html   (15295 words)

  
 Roma Rights / Nr1 2001 -- notebook
The figures in all tables and graphs throughout this article are preliminary findings of a study by the Prague-based Councelling Center for Citizenship and Human Rights, examining approximately 1060 cases.
They argued that the stop was pre-textual, i.e., that the subjective motivation of the officers in carrying out the stop had been to investigate a non-traffic crime for which they lack the required probable cause or reasonable suspicion.
If people believe that justice and fair treatment are not “on offer” for them, this may influence their attitudes and approach to the institutions of justice.
lists.errc.org /rr_nr1_2001/noteb4.shtml   (5630 words)

  
 ATDEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
          The drugs that cause TEN and Stevens-Johnson syndrome, with the exception of sulfonamides, is a pretty different list of drugs and you don't see those antibiotics, most of which we will be talking about today, on this list of drugs that are associated with TEN and SJS.
          For the drug hypersensitivity syndrome, again, sulfonamides are the one antibiotic that is associated but it is mostly the anti-seizure drugs that are deemed responsible for most cases.
BIGBY:  There have been a lot of studies on the clinical predictability of history of drug allergy and the general result is that the history of drug allergy has very little predictive value because what people remember from 30 years ago often wasn't a drug reaction at all.
www.fda.gov /ohrms/dockets/ac/03/transcripts/3931T1.htm   (5260 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Recreational drug use
A distinction is frequently made between recreational use of drugs and drug abuse, although there is much controversy on where the dividing line lies on the spectrum from a drug user to a drug abuser.
Some say it begins when a person uses what is deemed to be excessive amounts, while others draw the line at the point of legality.
A further distinction can be made in that it is the use of the drug that is recreational, and not the drug itself.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Recreational_drug_use   (333 words)

  
 Booklists - Fathers and Sons
Jim finds father figures in three uncles, whose enduring influence shows the power of a good family in the maturing of a young boy.
Oskar Schell is a precocious nine-year-old who is struggling, with all the powers of his inventive brain, to understand his father’s death on 9/11.
Forty years of Afghan history furnish the backdrop to this engrossing story of fathers and sons, friendship, and betrayal between an upper class Pashtun family and their lower-caste Hazara servants.
www.cincinnatilibrary.org /booklists/?id=fathersandsons   (1358 words)

  
 Johnson's Russia List #5256 - May 16, 2001
number of cases are caused by alcoholism and drug addiction.
100,000 children, 762 are registered alcoholics or drug addicts.
he was the one figure in the drama of the Soviet collapse who was the equal
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5256.html   (7539 words)

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